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Are PBS and Ken Burns about to Rewrite History Again? (Viet Nam)
americanthinker.com ^
| 7/17/2017
| Stephen Sherman
Posted on 07/17/2017 7:08:59 AM PDT by rktman
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Well, as some would say, "It's complicated." RIP brothers and sisters.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:08:59 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Of course, 90% of the “documentary” will focus on how unfair it was towards blacks.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:11:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rktman
And you can bet, Burns will blame Nixon more for Vietnam, than LBJ.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:12:30 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I got under some liberals skin once, by noting that LBJ was a Democrat. The war greatly escalated under LBJ. Liberals don’t like to hear inconvenient truths about what some of their own Democrats have done in history.
To: rktman
Do we really need another KB insomnia cure? His past ones work just fine.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:18:40 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
To: rktman
This punk made a bunch of rapists and attempted murderers millionaires. The "Central park 5". Burns made a fauxcumentary about them proclaiming their innocence and NYC Mayor and taxpayer funded anarchist Bill De Blasio saw it and got teary eyed and had the city hand over $44 million to those punks, and if that doesn't tick you off enough, now they are suing for an additional $50 million. I talked to the lead detective in that case, he said before they even got them to the station, they were admitting to it in the patrol car. Not only that, they also admitted it with their parents present and also were caught on a jailhouse phone bragging about it. Yo! Now they living large boyeeeee! Tanks Mistuh Burns!
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:19:55 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
To: rawcatslyentist
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:21:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rktman
Will he call Riot gas Nerve gas again?
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:21:21 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Lest we forget it was the Democrats holy figure St. John of Kennedy who first sent advisers to Vietnam in the early sixties. Leftist historians are running with the narrative that if JFK had lived we would of gotten out of Vietnam. All speculation on their part, but this was a war started by a Democrat president.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:25:22 AM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: rktman
“”Burns is a left-wing “historian” and documentary film producer with a history of having his politics shape the narrative of the story he is telling, with a number of resulting inaccuracies.””
Also known as the propaganda of history.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:25:39 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: jacknhoo
Howard Zinn’s love child.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:26:23 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rktman
John kerry liked to call Veterans Baby killers and war criminals then go to Paris to collude with the North Vietnamese. Tet was the biggest Victory of the Military since WWII but Cronkite lamented all was lost, guess he was a communist. Then to top it off the demonicrats voted to defund the war and blamed Veterans for everything.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:28:40 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: dowcaet
November 1, 1955 President Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. This marks the official beginning of American involvement in the war as recognized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
July 8, 1959 Charles Ovnand and Dale R. Buis become the first two American Advisers to die in Vietnam.
Sorry, but it started with Ike. And I am a great admirer of Eisenhower.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:29:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rktman
Ken Burns correctly identifies the Vietnam War as being the point at which our society split into two diametrically opposed camps. I would say rather its the event on which the left and so-called progressive movement demonstrated it had infiltrated and taken over all the major institutions of American governance and society.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:29:04 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: rktman
I wonder if they will mention the brutality of Communism and the fact that the MSM of the time and the Leftist peace loving hippies of the time tried to cover up this fact.
Right or wrong, we have a very valid reason for being very concerned about Communist China and the USSR and their puppets. We now have proof of the brutality of the Communist regimes. Yet, people still idolize these viscous dictators.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:29:33 AM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: Dilbert San Diego
Ya. They didn’t like him very much at the time, either.
Did you know that Kennedy was involved early on too?
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:30:45 AM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: rktman
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:32:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dowcaet
Yes it was a war started and escalated by Democrats, and was a war of choice.
Remember how the liberals always criticized Bush for “wars of choice”??? Well, Vietnam was a war of choice and we got into it because of Democrats. Sometimes inconvenient truths are hard for the liberals to swallow.
To: rktman
I thought his work on the Civil War and Baseball were both stellar.
The pinnacle of historical documentary.
In spite of the fact he’s a commie, through and through.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:33:59 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: dowcaet
Seems a lot of folks ignore or forgive or just don’t care as long as “camelot” wasn’t made to look bad. I call them fidiots.
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posted on
07/17/2017 7:35:52 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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